Sailing Instructions – Laser Open

SAILING INSTRUCTIONS

1. RULES

All races shall be sailed under the ISAF Racing Rules of Sailing 2017-2020, the Rules of the International Laser Class, the prescriptions of the Race Committee, and by these Sailing Instructions.

VENUE & ORGANIZING AUTHORITY

The races shall be sailed in Falmouth Harbour, Antigua under the auspices of the Antigua Yacht Club which is also the Organizing Authority.

ENTRIES

Competitors may complete registration with the Organizing Authority, no later than 4PM pm on the Wednesday 22nd March 2017.

NOTICES TO COMPETITORS & CHANGES TO SAILING INSTRUCTIONS

Notices to competitors shall be posted on the official regatta notice board located at the Antigua Yacht Club at least one hour before the start of the first race of each day.

SCHEDULE OF RACE

Races are scheduled as follows:

Saturday 25th March: First race will not start before 9:30 a.m. – three (3) races in the morning and two (2) in the afternoon.

Sunday 26th March: First race will not start before 9:30 a.m. – three (3) races in the morning.

THE COURSES

The courses shall be Olympic Triangle and/or Windward/Leeward.

The Start-Finish line shall not be crossed unless starting or finishing a race.

The courses shall be as follows:

6.3.1. Course 1 – Start, Mark 1, 2, 3, 1, 3, Finish.

6.4. Courses will be signaled using a display board on the Committee Boat signaling Course 1 or Course 2.

6.5. All marks shall be rounded to port.

MARKS

The marks are three (3) large, orange buoys.

START

The start shall be between the orange Flag Staff on the Committee Boat and an orange buoy to its port. An inner spacer buoy may be a white fender. The spacer buoy, if used, is an extension of the Committee Boat but not part of the start line. All dinghies and boats attached to the Committee Boat are an extension of the Committee Boat.

Rule 26, is modified as follows:

Warning Signal at three (3) minutes – Laser flag up & sound signal.

Preparatory Signal at two (2) minutes – P flag up & sound signal.

At one (1) minute – P flag down & sound signal

Start – warning down & sound signal.

THE FINISH

The finish shall be between the orange Flag Staff on the Committee Boat and an orange buoy to its port.

TIME LIMIT

10.1. The time limit for each race shall be fifty (50) minutes. Boats failing to finish within ten (10) minutes after the first boat finishes or after the time limit, whichever is earlier, shall be scored DNF.

SHORTENED COURSE

11.1. Whenever the ‘S’ flag is flown from a mark boat at a rounding or finishing mark, finish between the nearby mark and the ‘S’ flag on the mark boat.

PENALTY SYSTEM

12.1. In accordance to rule 44.1.

PROTESTS

13.1. Rule 61.1 is changed in that a boat required to display a protest flag shall do so until she is no longer racing. Protests shall be written on forms available at the Committee Desk. The protest time limit is a half an hour after the Committee Boat docks.

SCORING

14.1. Rule A4, the Low-Point Scoring System shall apply.

14.2. Ties shall be broken in accordance with rule A8.1.

14.3. Eight (8) races are scheduled of which one (1) shall be completed to constitute a series.

Following discussions between Antigua Yacht Club and Antigua Sailing Week along with the Triskell Organisation in Guadeloupe, a decision has been made to cancel the Guadeloupe to Antigua Race. Historically a passage race to Antigua Sailing Week, the race has dwindled in size over the last few years and has been increasingly difficult and costly to organise and has been deemed unviable.

All of the parties apologise for the late notice for 2018 and thank all those who have participated over the years. ...